adidas NMD_R1 'Duck Camo'
Colorway: Sesame/Trace Cargo/Base Green · Style code: D96617 · Release date: August 2018 · Price: $149 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Adidas NMD R1 Primeknit Sneakers (G57940) · Adidas NMD R1 Duck Camo Sneakers (D96616)
Duck camo takes its name from hunting apparel: large, soft-edged blotches in earth tones rather than the tight digital blocks of military issue. adidas printed it across the full engineered mesh upper here, so the pattern runs uninterrupted from toe to collar with no panel seams to break it. Sesame supplies the sand base, while Trace Cargo and Base Green fill the darker shapes and also pick out the sidewall Three Stripes, the eyestay and the heel.
Keeping the print on mesh rather than Primeknit matters to how it looks: the flatter surface holds the edge of each blotch cleanly, where a knit would blur it. Below the upper the construction is standard for the model, a full-length Boost midsole in white with moulded EVA inserts at either end and a segmented rubber outsole beneath. The pair came out in August 2018 at $130. A tonal pull tab at the heel carries the usual multilingual adidas text, and the Trefoil sits on the tongue.